Walls are half way up!

Over the weekend I made it up to the half-way point on the wall, with some heavy lifting help from my brother Saturday. That’s about 265 blocks placed and 560’ of rebar tied and weaved vertically and horizontally through them. Working with the rebar proved to be very hard on work clothes and skin. Numerous rips and tears in clothes, arms and legs. O and then there was a little fire incident Friday night while cutting rebar with a 4” angle grinder. If all the sparks are concentrated in to one area of the clothing it will catch fire. The pictures are all starting to look the same for the most part just more block on the walls and less on the pallets in the middle.

With help from our neighbor Scott and couple strong friends we were able to transport 520 blocks from our driveway to the backyard pond in just a few hours. Only managed to break a few blocks in the process.

I completed the second course of block the other night. Since I’m going with the dry stack method of construction on this pond the second course was glued down with construction adhesive. After sitting for 24 hours I started cutting a channel in the top of the blocks for the first ring of horizontal rebar. Next step will be placing more vertical and horizontal rebar in and tying it all together.